Hey Dev Masters! 👋Wanted to share a double win that had me buzzing with excitement this Month: 🛠️ Automated PHP Project Deployment to VPS Built a full-fledged GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that: ✅ Auto-syncs all valid apps/* PHP projects to my VPS via rsync ✅ Sets up Nginx virtual hosts dynamically per project ✅ Generates config.php with secure keys and DB credentials ✅ Creates MySQL DB & users on the fly ✅ Imports schema.sql if available ✅ Assigns unique ports per app + updates UFW & restarts Nginx 💾 Bonus: Keeps daily backups and removes old ones automatically. Just deleted an old project (phpsmm) cleanly with DB/user/config/firewall in a single flow. 🔥Feels like having my own PaaS 😎 🌊 Face-Based Photo Finder — AWS Rekognition Integration Built an AI-powered photo app (proof of concept) for surfers, using: - CompareFaces & SearchFacesByImage from AWS Rekognition - User uploads a selfie - The app searches a stored album and instantly pulls out all matching images — no need to scroll or filter manually 📸 Think of it as "Find yourself in the crowd" — but instant and intelligent. No training needed, just Rekognition + a clean image upload flow. Perfect for: - Surf photographers - Event albums - Anyone who's tired of digging through 100s of pictures to find themselves 😄 💭 Reflections - Automating deployment saves real mental energy. Set it once, and ship without fear. - AWS Rekognition makes face search almost too easy to implement. - The fusion of DevOps + AI unlocks magic workflows that feel futuristic. Would love to hear: - Have you tried integrating Rekognition or similar AI into real-world tools? - Anyone rolling similar CI/CD pipelines for PHP or multi-app systems? Let’s keep building awesome stuff and leveling up 🚀 #DevOps #AI #AWS #Rekognition #CI/CD #PHP #Automation #DevWins #DevMastery

Today, I also learned from a previous project, the tablet or desktop view that when you styling for the mobile or any device and you have cards that have everything beside each other like in the tablet version (and I think the desktop version too), where the testimonial cards are at in the section that says, "Real Stories from satisfied customers", and you want to change the position of the things that are on the card to be underneath each other like in a flex-direction, you would apply that to the whole card, not the wrapper that holds all the card, but the individual wrapper for that card. It probably doesn't make sense the way I worded it, but I wrote this post to help someone with what I learned and am learning in web development, but also so I will remember and retain what I learned, and so that if I get stuck on the same problem again I can go back and look at this to help me too. I might upload a video talking about what I'm talking about because maybe the way I worded it don't make sense, but I hope this help someone. This was based on what I learned from the previous projects. I think I am going to making more of the web development lessons that I learned. I hope this helps someone in their web development journey too.

Based on your suggestions from previous months, we’re making the metrics more trackable and transparent for choosing the winner. Also, I don't want this to be about grinding alone. It should also be about growing while helping others move forward too. Starting now, Dev Mastery Games rewards those who show progress AND make the community better along the way. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐢𝐧 1. 📈 Your Progress What you built, shipped, learned, or landed and shared in the 🔔 Wins Category - +5 points for each win you share - +10 bonus points for the biggest transformation of the month 2. 🤝 People You Helped Every time you reply and help someone in the community: - +1 point per reply 3. 🔥 Leaderboard Points Your overall activity score from the community leaderboard - + All your Skool activity points 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 If you win, you get to choose one: - 🎯 2-3 Job Referrals from me - 🧠 A Personalized Resume, written and optimized by me - 🚪 1:1 Strategy Call to tackle your next roadblock (technical or career) From now on it will be a team game. You win when you help others win too. 💪

Hey everyone! I’ve prepped our next session and published detailed Confluence docs to help you get your local setup ready. Before the next call: - I prepared all the Confluence docs which we'll go through together - Make sure to go through the first 4 docs in the list (till the Local Setup - we'll do this together) - Complete the Onboarding Checklist (a few of you haven’t yet) - Make sure you’ve joined Slack (all future updates will be shared only there) 🗓 Next Call: Saturday (check the calendar for the exact time) I scheduled it this way because I’ll be flying next week and might be less available until I settle, so I want to make sure everything’s ready before that. What we’ll cover live: I’ll walk you through the project’s local setup step-by-step. See ya Saturday! 🙂

I’m running these polls regularly so your votes can shape where I focus and make sure this community gives you what matters most. 👉 If I kept everything the same but had to remove ONE feature — what would impact you the least right now?